530 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 
The village streets are generally nothing more than gutters washed 
out by the rain, without repair or improvement. In the center of the 
village, however, there is a large free space or square where the old 
men crouch or lie down and indulge’in story telling. Here also 
stands the communal house, the “ taasest,” its construction the same 
as other buildings. 
The Kabyle men (pl. 7) are sturdy and are exceedingly hardy 
in withstanding privations and the influences of the weather. Hero- 
dotus says (i. 4, 187): “ The Libyans are in fact the healthiest men 
that I know.” They are slender and of medium height, although 
persons over 180 centimeters tall are not very rare, yet undersized 
and weak ones are hardly ever seen. Prengrueber' gives the results of 
measurements of 294 pure Kabyles as follows: 28.9 per cent, 161-163 
centimeters; 46.6 per cent, 164-170 centimeters; 24.5 per cent, 171-175 
centimeters; minimum, 150 centimeters; maximum, 185 centimeters. 
The Kabyles have a dignified carriage, but are not conceited or 
haughty like the Turks and Arabs. The color of their skin on the 
uncovered parts of the body, as the face, hands, and feet, which are 
exposed to the sun, is brown, and often, among the field workers, 
dark brown, but on the covered parts it is white, as with the Euro- 
peans. They are, therefore, as regards their bodily characteristics, 
wrongly counted among the Hamites, who are brown over the entire 
body, and transmit this character to their children, as I learned by 
observing a new-born Somali child.2_ The eyes are generally brown 
(88.6 per cent,® of which 41.3 per cent are dark brown, 47.3 per cent 
light brown); the hair is black (74.2 per cent, 59.7 per cent deep 
black, 14.5 per cent black brown). The face is handsomely oval, 
orthognathic, the forehead high, the nose straight and well-propor- 
tioned, the mouth generally small. The ear is not large, and fre- 
quently without lobes. The growth of the beard is thick, but a long 
beard is rarely worn; so also the hair of the head is kept short. The 
expression of the face is intelligent and benevolent. 
The head formation occasionally exhibits a strongly prominent 
occiput; rarely is the region of the temples vaulted. Narrow heads, 
inclining to dolichocephaly, are very common, and_ brachycephal 
heads are never seen. Prengrueber gives the following indices of 
182 measurements: of 72.2 per cent, 36.4 per cent were dolichocephalic 
up to 75 and 35.8 per cent subdolichocephalic up to 77.7; 15.7 per 
1Dr. Prengrueber has been for many years government and colonial physician in the 
great Kabylia with his residence at Palestro, and has improved the opportunity for the 
anthropological study of the Kabyles to write a comprehensive treatise, which was 
awarded the prize by the Paris Anthropological Society, but up to the present has not 
been published. At my request he readily placed the manuscript at my disposal with 
permission to use the data contained in it for my studies. I here express to him my 
warmest thanks for this courtesy. 
2 Zeitschrift ftir Ethnologie, 1906, p. 159. 
3 These statistics are everywhere taken from Prengrueber’s treatise. 
